> Apparently the founders of New Utopia are of the opinion that 100> miles from the nearest country is the pertinent distance.> Appended belwo is a letter taken from the New Utopia website that is> addressed to the UN:

Yeah, I saw that and, with all due respect, they're completely WRONG. I have
few claims to distinction, but one of them is having worked on a case for TEN
YEARS that actually turned on the legal regime of the Exclsuive Economic Zone
defined in UNCLOS. The EEZ is 200 miles:

"Article 57
BREADTH OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE
The exclusive economic zone shall not extend beyond 200 nautical miles from
the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured."

Finding these citations took me all of about two minutes. I know of no zone
in the ocean that is set to a 100 mile limit. Maybe these guys need to get
themselves a lawyer before they start pouring concrete.